Category Archives: The Yawn Patrol

Lake Land College President Josh Bullock announced Wednesday that the college's new master building plan includes funding for construction of the Rural Development Technology Center in Effingham. The ...

SPRINGFIELD, IL - This weekend marks your first chance to purchase tickets to central Illinois' most anticipated summer concert series. Tickets to all of the announced Illinois State Fair Grandstand c...

SPRINGFIELD - The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH), along with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration, and other state and local health departments...

Lake Land College and LaunchCode will cohost an informational session about the new IT-LaunchCode program on Wednesday, April 18 from 6-7 p.m. at the Kluthe Center for Higher Education and Technology ...

The Ashmore Days fundraiser will be this Saturday (4/14) at the Ashmore Community Center. Dinner will be served from 5:00-7:00 p.m., silent auction bidding will go from 5:00-7:30, and the Sawyer Broth...

Douglas-Hart Nature Center will have a spring rock painting session this Saturday (4/14) from 1:00-3:00 p.m. It's free and open to all, but registration is required. And children must be accompanied b...

The Paris High School Drama Club will present the classic "Mary Poppins" this weekend. The first performance is tomorrow night (4/13) at 7:00. Two shows on Saturday, at 1:00 and 7:00, and the final pe...

The 29th annual May Merriment will be held Saturday, May 5th at the Mattoon YMCA. Local restaurants will have food stations set up inside Bock Gym, and you can bid on live and silent auction items. Ne...

Teen Craftivity will meet on Tuesday, April 24, from 5:00-6:00pm in the Zone at the Charleston Carnegie Public Library. Middle School and High School students are invited to make a featured Do It Your...

From the desk of Ed Dowd, Executive Director of the Mattoon Chamber of Commerce: The Mattoon In Motion program continues to run strong. As a refresher, a group of over 60 community members have taken ...